FARM NOTES. Keep the cattle out of wet, miry pastures unless you want to lose some of the weaker ones. The marsh should be saved for spring and sum mer when other pastures are not at their best, and the cattle should be kept on high land at this season. The secret of raising a uniform bunch of pigs is to keep each litter by itself, so that there can be abso- lutely no monopoly of the feed. I {8 true that this involves some labor in feeding and also in fencing, but the owner will be paid bandsomely for the labor when markets the bunch. Should the calf seem not to thrive, give it half a pint of wheat bran, with a pinch of salt scalded with a teacupful of water. Give this with the usual amount of mlik, and always keep some corn, oats and hay with pure water handy. For sheep in milk the best feed is whole corn and oats, equal weight, giving ail the animal will eat =p clean. To add succulence to the feed, yellow sweet turnips sliced fine are also good. Alfalfa hay should be given In abundance Partial paralysis in pigs may treated successfully in some cases by dosing with Epsom salt ounce to each animal, a desertspoonful of cod graing phosphate of and drops nux vomica as a physic, given twice a day for several weeks. For the colt, mare's milk but it can de raised it it is rightly managed The milk being thinner an cow's milk, the latter ned and sweetened An experienced the follow'ng 8 an sxeei ent for rhievmatiam in hores 2 drams carbonate potash pint. of water and mix it two or three times a day animal gets well. Apply equal alcohol and water affected twice a day. Constitution is the forerunner of all diseases and disorders dn live Keep the bowels open by feeding an abundance of geren feed, of giving liberal doves of Epsom linseed oll. he f with io two ollowing liver oll, 1 1 ime on COw Ss mares should be farmer save remmly Dissolve a teed of in with until the parta to joints stock galls or raw THE CROSS-BREBEDING OF SHEEP No incident in the growing and breeding of farm animals demands an ment and skill than the judicious cross-breeding of a flock of sheep. An inexperienced breeder is often In clined to think he can combine the ex. cellences of various breeds in a fect animal, but he is greatly mistak. en if he supposes that early maturity, aptitude for fattening, size, gymmetry, Hor. per neg#s may mal. reeds may be greatly judicious crossing, and porary advantages may an admixture of blodd: but if it is desired to make the characteristic permanent, the fundamental rules of breeding must be observed if you gain an affinity or harmony of qual ities, The South Down and ne wool sheep may be crossed without doing violence to any established of breeding. The fineness of the fleece may be decreased, but the quantity will be enbanced and much improve ment may be achieved in size be combined in one _anl improved by a few tem- be gained by “a “a é rule orossed with any permanent degree of success. change the character of a flock, but There now exists an excellent oppoas tunity for poultrymen to find if poul try really pays. They must neve; forget, however, that the prepex management ang the comforts in the fowls must always be taken into coun gideration when estimating the profits and loss.—Farmers' Home Journal WOMEN AND POULTRY. We can point to quite a number of women who have increased the num- ber of thelr fowls with a view to as- sisting themselves during the dull times, the object being to have money come in sooner than by relying on something requiring a longer period for remunerating them. [Eggs are daily products and enable the farmer to procure cash either in small or can assist materially some of the. details although they can- not do hard work in the poultry house | and yards. They are more success. ful in raising chicks than men be | cange they are more patient and do not overlook the small matters if there have been a large number of pullets hatched it would no doubt pay to keep them all winter if { accommodations will permit in order to help through the cold weather. ! The greatest success of farmers with {| poultry is when thelr wives assist by taking an interest in large num- i bers, but the farmers should not leave the heavy duties to be attended to { by their wives —Weekly Witness. i ment. Women in attending to of management, THOROUGHBRED SADDLE HORSES Breeders of saddle horses who in tend to introduce thoroughbred blood ito Improve ir stock, can not too critical. There are some thor oughbreds almost as poorly fitted for improving saddle horses as would be “woods colts.” They may lack the proper form, or the disposition or the flexible action of the limbs and joints. Besides having these, they | may be so purely unstylish as to whol i ly disqualify be old saddie families { were built on the right kind of thor oughbreds and, as far as it is pos sible, breeders will do well to oon. centrate and bring together strains bearing the greatest amount of such blood. Many thoroughbred mmrea are be ing bred to registered saddle stallions and we do not gay it is unwise to do this, with the precautions men tioned Before incorporating a filly of this kind of breeding into a herd she should be fully looked over to see what effect the outcross has had. If she is not 3 good type discard her -~Farmer's Home Journal the be ———— PREPARATION OF THE SOIL. Quite as much depends upon the proper preparation of the soil for the | best. development of piants ag” the use of fertilizers. A case in point is that of an intelligent Missouri farm- er who lived in a section where the idea prevailed that wheat could not be profitably grown there He had trie. to raise wheat on hig farm in the old, rough way, and could get but ten or twelve bushels per acre, He visited the State experiment sta tion at a time when a plot of ground {was being prepared for wheat and | became so impressed with their thor ough methods of goll preparation that i he prepared a field on his farm in the same way, and from this har i vested a crop of 35 bushels of good wheat per acre, the only fertilizer | used being stable manure and a light { application of lime —Epitomist. OVERPRODUCTION OF POULTRY. become fixed or permanent. ers generally agree that the ram ex perts the most influence In giving his that the internal form and cofstruc. tion is more dependent upon the dam. This forms an important rule for the guidance of the breeder. When the oross-breeding Is between families of th same breed, the famides should be as distinct as possible. Sheep of the same breed that originate In dif ferent districts of the same country are endowed with different qualities, and these may be combined in a fa vorable manner—W. M. K.. in the Eplitomist. MONEY IN BGGS. There has not heen a season for many years when the prices of eggs have held up as they have reoently. In July and August it is not usual for the farmer to receive thirty cents per dozen for eggs, to say nothing of the prices of egis that are assorted and packed in boxes for fancy trade, The large crops of grain and potatoes Abat are belug raised this year over ‘the whole cotintry should induce «farmers to keep larger flocks. : are selMng for a higher price, pro ‘portionately, than any other article produced on the farm. Not only Is wgrain going to be cheaper, from the “present outlook, but also the vege tables that the farmers will have that cannot be shipped or utilized on the family table, and they can be turned " ipto money through the egg market, {The prices of beef are so high that * many’ housewives prefer ponitry to beef and the stock that is not profit. able can be converted into cash, It has been pretty well proven that the past is the safest guide to the { future, and if we may judge by the way the demand has been increasing {eggs have been advancing the past | few years, there certainly is no dan (ger of an oversupply. With all the | new plans and inventions that have ! been given us by moddern scientific | methods, and with all the gtimulus ot | good prices the year round, we have | not yet been able to keep pace with the demand, for the reason that the demand has been, and still Is in i creasing even more rapidly than the supply. So the farmer who has in mind the worthy idea of increasing the size of his poultry operations, can do so wwih perfect confidence in the stability of prices for poultry and eggs. — Epitomist. KAFFIR CORN TESTS. That Kafir corn and milo maze are not properly appreciated in fecl trade is the conclusion of the Texw station in feeding tests. These gra’ 1a contain considerable less fat or soll the The protein and fat of Kafr corn the same constituents In Indian corn in a feeding test the Kaffir corn pro with Indian corn in’ third place Epltomist. House. i mo the ceremonies at- inauguration of Vice-President purpose to make tending actual President Taft and Sherman as solemn and dignified as befits so important an event Joy | and music and the spirit of festivity will mark the inaugural parade, and the scenes along the streets will be as brilliant as ever, but in the Capitol and on the inaugural stand erected on | its east front solemnity and dignity | will dominate The details are al-| ready perfected, and every officlal, | every employe understands the part! he is to play | The Senate will complete the work of the last session of the Sixtieth | Congress about 10.30 a. m. on Mareh | 4, and will then take a recess so that the scenery may be set for the im-! portant act in the great drama of the! Republic 80 soon to take place, | Shortly before moon the Vice-Presi-| dent will call the Senate to order. The Secretary of the Senate will an- nounce the arrival of the Speaker and | the House of Representatives, and | they will file into the Senate Cham-| ber and take the places assigned to | them. Next in order will come the | Supreme Court of the United States, headed by Chief Justice Fuller, and | then the ambassadors and ministers plenipotentiary of the foreign nations. | Following the heads of the diplomatic | corps will come the heads of the ex- | ecutive departments, who will take their places immediately back of the seats assigned to the chief figures in| the drama Following the Cabinet the Vice-| President-elect will be formally an-| nounced, and will enter, accompanied | by his escort, Senator Frye, president | pro tempore of the Senate, and Rep-| resentative Young. “The President-] elect” will be the next announcement, | and William H. Taft, accompanied by | Senators Knox and Lodge, will enter, | and, finally, the President of the | United States will enter alone. Ati each announcement the cntire assem- | blage will rise and remain standing until the person so announced is seated. When all the dignitaries bave ar-| rived, the Vice-President will deliver his valedictory and will then call to the rostrum James 8. Sherman, to whom he will administer the oath of the Vice-President of the United States, after which he will declare the Senate adjourned without day. Hav. ing been gworn, Mr. Sherman will as- cend the rostrum, and, taking the gavel, will call the Senate to order for the new session, and will ask that new members of the Senate come forward and take the oath of office. the Presumably there will be sixteen new faces in the Senate. Each new Sena. tor, accompanied by his colleague, will step forward and take the oath. This done, the entire assemblage will proceed to the inaugural stand. The scergeants-at-arms of the Sen- ate and the House will lead the stale ly procession. This is an Innovation, as heretofore it has been led by the marshals of the Supreme Court and of the District of Columbia. Those present in the Senate Chamber will fall into line in the same order in which they entered the Senate, and the entire company will march to the inaugural stand. The troops gathered in front of the stand will present arms as the Pres- ident and the President-elect appear at the main door of the Capitol, and when they have arrived at the front of the stand Chief Justice Fuller will step forward and administer to Mr. Taft the oath of office, following which the new President will deliver his inaugural address, which is un- derstood to be unusually brief. From the stand the President will descend a flight of steps to his carriage and drive immediately to the White House, where he may snatch a brief luncheon before taking his place in the reviewing stand erected in front of the White House grounds, from which he will view the great parade in his honor. The Vice-President and the mem- bere of the Senate will return from the inaugural stand to the Jenate Chamber, where certain brief routine business will be transacted and ad- journment taken Ex-President Roosevelt, on leaving the inaugural stand, will enter his carriage from another entrance to the Capitol, and, escorted by the New York Republican County Committee, will drive immediately to the Union Station, whence he will start for New York, accompanied by the members of his family There will be a slight change this year in the order of the progress of the President, the President-elect and the Vice-President and the Vice. President-elect to the Capitol. In view of the close relations of Senator Lodge to the President he will ride | in the carriage with the President and the President-elect, as will also Senator Knox, who as chairman of the Committee on Arrangements is the personal escort of the Executive, The Vice-President will have as escort Senator Bacon and Representatives Burke snd Gaines, while the Vice- President-elect will be accompanied by Senatqgr Frye, the president pro tempore of the Senate, and Repre- sentative Young. Heretofore only one Senator hag accompanied the two chief figures in the ceremonies. New York City. — Patents having been obtained on it in twenty-four countries, Hiram Percy Maxim gave a demonstration and explanation of his silencing device for rifles before a large number of representatives of newspapers and scientific publica- tions. By the use of a sandbox tar- ranging in power from a .22 calibre up to the new Springfield .30 calibre military rifle. They were fired both with and without the “silencer,” and the spectators—or Jerhaps it might be better to say auditors—marvelled at the effect of the little device. It is sald scientific tests show that nine. Only Sixteen, Bat Invents a Duplex Receiver For Wireless, Plymouth, Mass. ~ Harold B, for the last three years, and who has a small or sending station at his ome, No. 7 South street, has suc cooded Jn upluting Sha dacelving portion Pp #0 t WO Oper. can sit and “listen In" inde- of each other, the # process of tuning, i Bossible £0 Awo OpArators to work. The tests were made in the offices of Redding, Greeley & Austin, coun- of the Potter Building, in Park row, and it was cause for wonder among “silencer” did not arouse the other tenants in the building. The “silencer” is a metal tube about seven inches long and an Inch and a quarter in diameter, which can rifle barrel which has been provided with a thread for that purpose, . It is declared that the velocity of the bullet ig not lessened in the least degree, as the have done all their work on the projectile before they reach the “silencer.” $1,000 New York Husbands Have Deserted Wives, bands in Manhattan and the Bronx and 68000 in Brooklyn have been In the police court, charged with aban. donment and non-support of their wives, is rovenied in Hie pieitininnsy roport of the com into the courts of inf jurisdiction in cities of the first class, made pub lie by Governor Hughes, * ats of» ® » BE hl tot cat acid dH 8 4 HARMONIZE, of colors in dress COLORS | ne display THAT combination the excellent or bad wearer. Of course it cannot be expected that every woman harmony in er one te of point the wall possess a true eye for n i faculty saunot be acquired, certain color sense all women can cultivate. tance, wistaria biue are the right wis- jecadse this as the new a pale pastel combination given 5, such as a hat of p felt, with pale violets f pastel But a ith violets will that a to ale trimmed a4 touch o bine hat decorated w fiat and eold so biack would be necessary give 114 ae ’ Pure violet A des ith pale and blue p shade of prune harmon- and foes a nd ‘a bluish violet. are this I 40 nct any Kind sd, Bul a ornamented pale simply blue, 80 biue a and yellow effective to- By mean aides in of proportion dark blue a . Or with r Or mustary col old. vellow rr and will effec. frock decorated ribbong will not be a suc- he Fae under be Tan, with black shade are Yous . armpon gray 0 IO0YS any 4.1 ans of biue biges effective ith 1 tO3Ta of #4 an There i una ich of vel aliractive oy green that has a t it taria Ww that with #4 and heliotrope tones, also with certa tints of The combine Ow Olive cossful Very faint brighten « delicate in old rose hellotrope vel suo on? dull is particularly with color genuine shades prettily with sale Er#sen when nor ried oor peas 5 ah nk will and same oor used coppery brown Em- bine is often touches of H pl ve green the will as 4 lining to a éraid green pleasing in Gray is with low, tcne be tive ww iss “tl with Dale effect, attractive whe pale pink rose color, i lemon burnt orange thades of brown on the golden Dut « be or pale ar chest. nocolate or leather shades safely green Due regard. how ever, combined with either blue must be giv- to go to to take a ris when buy- with the wari that will be ore before making a If the buyer lacks confi her own taste person will always be ready to give an opinion. A Tow rules When two tozei her whenever > Te en in ~pthe selecting shades at ¢f the Mg and keep ous found in selection dence tegling shades the of green f i wt eh i in to follow do not are colors look well EeDATAle posgible Many persons possess an every combination can he with black This is a mistake. Biack lowers the tints when plac. ed in contact with them, but it be comes dull in itsell, besides impart ing a certain amount of dulness to the colors. White, on the contrary, to modify, thus lessening the dead whiteness and at the same time less. ening the intensity of the tones with which it is combined Black. and white is always a safe combination, and a small proportion Pf any chosen color will not de. stroy the artistic effect of these two New York Telegram. LABOR TO AID SUFFRAGE. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, presi dent of the Interurban Woman Saf frage Council, of New York, appeal ed to the delegates of the Central Federated Union to assist the coun. cil in the ccllection of bne million signatures to a woman suffrage peti tion to Congress. A committee from was empowered to ask all amliated members sign the petition. The C. CF. U. delegates were instructed to ald the work. Mrs. Catt, in a speech to the delegates, sald: "President Gompers and Vice Prosi. dent Mitchell of the American Fed eration of Labor are on our advisory | board for the petition. We will have them go before Congress and speak in our behalf, : “President-elect Taft says he be. Iheves in woman suffrage, but that {he does not beliove the people are ready for it. Many members of Con | gress say the same thing. We will | get signatures from all parts of the country for our petition, which we | hope will be the largest ever pre (sented to Congress. oy ! “In the questions of the day. The movement to extend the suffrage engages the attention of the entire European pop ulation. Women in the great Eu ropean cities have special privileges In England, Scotland and Ireland women vote on all questions except for members of Parliament. in Norway women having small proper ty rights have the right to vote for members of Parliament and are aiso permitted to sit in Parllament. In Finland women have universal suf frage. In Australia and New Zealand they also have the suffrage. Only 4p America are disfranchised.” “In Colorado,” added a delegate, Al fred J. Boulton, discussing the sub ject, “the women defeated the po | litical machines and elected a power { ful friend the people to the { bench” they of GIRL, CHARMS the Americans fame through {the one who has achieved eft Success ! Boston girl, eleven years citals have i cable despatches World. In spite of the fact she has received praise from royalty and oth j er distinguished men and women i she ig still an unaffected, simple lit tle American girl takes as PARIS. who are in Parls the great is a little jJarentzen piano re briefly In New York BOSTON Of all | seeking art this season Aline van old, whose reported to The been that ple of asure In { playing difficult works Liszt, Bee | thoven, Chopin and other mas ters as other girls take in their dolls Aline has taken two medals at the famous Conservatoire and i= now trying for the Grand Prize. She was younger than any other pupil ev er admitted to the Conservatoire, and younger years than any other permitted to try Prize. Those ‘who Hoffmann and re member when he was a youthful knickerbockers that a future assured even Che much the here is by two person Grand have heard Josef ever for the prodigy in litle Aline bh more brilliant She has _— BAY Aan in persons well and English #¥ Lae given two concerts Paris, both attended by in the colonies and n siduous America mark “the noon American the social life of Infanta Eulalia has been as in her attentions to the n prodigy. since this royal becoms thing” to after. receptions known in Capit and it it has Aline of favor have at JUST IMAGINE. of One clal men above 1 be the newest vogues In SO london for engaged wearing of gold bangles it is not likely to the engaged men On this side of the Atlantic. New York society men particularily have never taken kindly to such fads. Some of them been known to wear bands gold, presented by their flancee, on the upper part of the arm, out of sight, so that few of their in timate friends were aware of it. In England the bangle, given by the young woman, is locked on the arm, and the summer sporis—goll, ten. nis and rowing—have revealed just how many athletic youths are about to become benedicts Th fad all turns on a fashion-—rather late in the day to discover it--set by the king, who it appears since his mar riage has always worn a heavy gold bangle on his wrist. A dozen or fil teen years ago there were some men in this prosaic country who were In. | trepid enough to attempt the wear ing of the gold bangle, but the quibs and jests of their friends soon weaned them the fad —Washing ton Star. circles the in % he elbow adopted by have of of CHINESE LAW. Chinese women have been success {ful in their revolt against the bar i baric custom of compressing the feet, and now they are engaged in a cam. | paign for the suppression of mothers indaw. This means modern advance , ment for the Celestial Kingdom with {a vengeance, and though the agita. tion may appear humorous to us it tis of grave import to the mothers. inlaw. The Chinese wives Have or , ganized anti-mother-in-law clubs, ; which doubtless will find the ap .proval of many American husbands, | The complaint is that the Chinese | mother-in-law is too much of a busy. body; that she is an autocrat, a posi tive nuisance and a bar to complete | happiness between married couples. \ The Chinese wife does not object to | being ordered about by her husband, | but she has put her foot down against | being ordered about by her husband's | mother. There can be no doubt of | the outcome. The Chinese mother indaw is bound %o lose her power. New York Press. WAR ON MOTHERS-IN- { i TO COMBAT INJUSTICE. An academic association for wom an suffrage has been founded at Zu rich, Switzerland. It aim: to com bat Injustice toward equal laws and equal pay as well as equal suffrage for both sexes. It is intended to ap peal in the first instance to men and women of university education as be ing best able to understand the needs and help the movement. In America there has been a similar in stitution for several years, the Col the advocates of the movement for equal suffrage say has accomplisl Sun, FASHION NOTES, Yellow diamonds are the reigning The hood is a
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